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One thing I really liked about the original 30-pin connector is that you can dangle the phone upside down, without the phone coming out of the connector. This is the thing that turned me off of micro-…

Why would Blizzard want to watermark their own screenshots?

Let's talk a bit more about #2 then. As I mentioned elsewhere, most of pg's observations still hold in 2012. But, he clearly missed the implication, as you mentioned in point 1. I believe Java is stil…

No hard numbers, but I'm sure most Java implementations are still running Java the language. IMHO Java's success today is more because of corporate inertia than anything else. Kinda like how COBOL sti…

First off I must say that I like reading about past predictions. It can provide insights into how well current predictions may pan out in the future. It interesting that all the points made 11 years a…

If the scale didn't change, scrolling down would have taken a lot longer. There was plenty of empty space as it were now.

Why don't some of us want to give Kotaku pageviews?

Wait I don't understand, are we assuming that the lottery ticket has a 100% chance of being worth $20 billion? Are we ignoring the fact that there's a sizeable chance that it is worth $0?

I'm not sure about your family member, but folks who don't use their computers often may be more hesitant to randomly click a "Download" in case they accidentally download a virus or do irreparable da…

Considering the language he works on is named after Monty Python, his answers do seem rather appropriate.

Steve Yegge's statement about how programming in the "future" will shift away from desktop apps and towards web-based applications strikes me as being the most prescient.

Having worked with multi-threaded applications in other languages, I'm starting to think that the GIL is more a good thing than a bad thing. Seriously, threads are evil.

All those self statements.

I never did understand why True and False are capitalized. [EDIT: Turns out it's because all built-in constants are capitalized: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/521476/why-true-false-is-... . Lea…

Hang on, I thought they debunked the whole "aspartame is a carcinogen" thing...

I'd like to see the Python version.

Maybe you should fix any XSS vulnerabilities...

This needs to be said more. As much as I like Obama, his administration's position on digital copyrights is truly shameful.

As a programmer, I have to agree. Of the many skills I think every kid should know, programming does not really rank highly. I'd rather they teach something like cooking or first-aid.

We only have resources of one planet to share among the entire population, so I think it's safe to say that it is a zero-sum game. Assuming of course, we don't end up going into space.

SEEKING WORK - Malaysia, Remote OK I'm a full-time robotics software engineer looking to supplement my income, can do 15 hours a week. - Experienced in Python, C#. I have developed industrial automati…

I am really glad I wasn't wearing headphones at the time.

His point was that it is a sustainable business, which is not something that can be said of most Silicon Valley startups (in his opinion).

>>"Is there any disadvantage to cheating on an anonymous website course (other than personally not knowing the material)?" Is there any advantage to cheating in Coursera? Coursera doesn't of…

"Our telescopes, which we call the Arkyd 100 spacecraft, are cubes half-a-meter on a side and will cost around $1 million each, though the first one, of course, will cost much more." I seriously find …

What world-wide Raspberry Pi shortage? I got mine within a week. In a 3rd-world country no less =P

I too do not know why people like things that I hate.

The limiting factor for people isn't some innate attribute, it's time . You need x amount of time coding, debugging, refactoring before you can call yourself a programming 'expert'. This is time that…